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nodosus in sheep flocks and thus were no longer eligible ( Vatn et al., 2012). Our study indicates that cross-infection of virulent Bleomycin D. nodosus from sheep to co-grazing cattle occurs, and that the virulent isolates can persist on bovine feet for at least ten months. Grazing of cattle on pastures where sheep with ovine footrot are kept should be avoided. Virulent D. nodosus was isolated from one cow directly after the grazing season, which shows that one grazing season without contact with sheep is insufficient to eliminate virulent D. nodosus from bovine feet. Cattle must be considered a source of virulent D. nodosus in elimination programmes. The authors would like to thank the participating claw trimmers, farmers and technicians for their help and support during the study. We also want to thank Dr. M. Palmer, Department of Agriculture Albany Regional Office, Australia for providing control strains of D. nodosus, and Dr. O. P. Dhungyel, Faculty of Veterinary Science, The University of Sydney, for supplying D. nodosus reference strains for serogroups A to I. The study was funded by Animalia��The Norwegian Meat and Poultry Research Centre, TINE Norwegian Dairies BA and the Research Council Verteporfin in vitro of Norway, the Agricultural Agreement Research Fund and the Foundation for Research Levy on Agricultural Products (grant number 199422). ""Feline immunodeficiency virus (FIV) is a widespread pathogen of the domestic cat and infection results in a progressive immune dysfunction similar to AIDS in human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Since its discovery in 1986 from a cat with an immunodeficiency like syndrome (Pedersen et al., 1987), Mephenoxalone FIV has been recognized widely as the feline equivalent of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and both viruses share significant physical, biochemical and pathogenic features (Johnson et al., 1994). Such are the similarities between FIV and HIV that FIV serves as a valuable animal model for both prophylactic and therapeutic studies of HIV (Elder and Phillips, 1995) as well as being the only non-primate lentivirus that induces an AIDS-like syndrome in its natural host (reviewed in Willett et al., 1997). Like other retroviruses, FIV has high mutation rate, mainly due to the error-prone reverse transcriptase (Shankarappa et al., 1999); accordingly, diverse viral variants emerge continually in the infected host. Since the env gene is the key determinant of viral diversity among FIV ( Olmsted et al., 1989), FIV phylogeny studies have focussed mainly on env sequences. According to the nucleotide sequence diversity of the V3�CV5 region of env, FIV is classified currently into five distinct phylogenetic subtypes, designated A to E ( Sodora et al., 1994?and?Pecoraro et al., 1996); subtypes A and B are the most commonly occurring worldwide ( Martins et al., 2008).